Homeland - Carrie Mathison Played by Claire Danes | SHOWTIME Homeland Claire Danes Claire Danes has established herself as one of Hollywood's leading actresses. For her performance as Carrie Mathison on HOMELAND she has won back-to-back Golden Globe� Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series � Drama, a 2013 Screen Actors Guild Award� for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series and the 2012 Emmy� Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Danes also received critical acclaim for her performance in HBO's acclaimed TEMPLE GRANDIN biopic. Based on the extraordinary life of Temple Grandin, the film chronicles how she turned her unique talent into a behavioral tool that revolutionized the cattle industry and laid the groundwork for her successful career as an author, lecturer, and pioneering advocate for autism and autism spectrum disorder educations. Danes won the 2010 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie and the film won for Outstanding Made for Television Movie.

She also won the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television and the 2011 Screen Actors Guild� Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries. Danes starred in Richard Linklater's critically acclaimed film ME & ORSON WELLES, opposite Zac Efron and Christian McKay. The screenplay by Holly Gent Palmo and Vincent Palmo Jr. is based on the novel by Robert Kaplow and is set in the heady world of Orson Welles' famed Mercury Theater. The National Board of Review named the film one of 2009's Top Independent Films. In 2007, Danes made her Broadway debut starring in George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION opposite Jefferson Mays. Her performance as Eliza Doolittle was well reviewed by critics .

Danes garnered critical acclaim for her performances in Anand Tucker's SHOPGIRL opposite Steve Martin and Jason Schwartzman; Richard Eyre's STAGE BEAUTY opposite Billy Crudup; Burr Steers' IGBY GOES DOWN, opposite Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, Ryan Phillippe and Kieran Culkin; and Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's ROMEO + JULIET opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. Danes first caught critics' and audiences' attention in Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz's acclaimed series, MY SO-CALLED LIFE, which earned her an Emmy nomination, and she was awarded the Golden Globe for her leading role as Angela Chase.

Danes' other film credits include Matthew Vaughn's STARDUST opposite Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer; Lajos Koltai's EVENING, opposite Toni Collette, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Natasha Richardson, and Vanessa Redgrave; Thomas Bezucha's THE FAMILY STONE, opposite Diane Keaton and Sarah Jessica Parker; Jonathan Mostow's TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES, opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Nick Stahl; Stephen Daldry's Academy Award� winning drama THE HOURS, opposite Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Allison Janney, Ed Harris, and Toni Collette; Jonathan Kaplan's BROKEDOWN PALACE, opposite Kate Beckinsale; Bille August's LES MISERABLES; Theresa Connelly's POLISH WEDDING; Francis Ford Coppola's THE RAINMAKER, opposite Danny DeVito and Matt Damon; Oliver Stone's U TURN, opposite Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, and Joaquin Phoenix; Michael Pressman's TO GILLIAN ON HER 37th BIRTHDAY, opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Peter Gallagher; Jocelyn Moorhouse's HOW TO MAKE AN

 AMERICAN QUILT, opposite Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, and Ellen Burstyn; Billy Hopkins' I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU NOT, opposite Jude Law; Jodie Foster's HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, opposite Robert Downey Jr., Holly Hunter, and Anne Bancroft; and Gillian Armstrong's LITTLE WOMEN, opposite Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, and Kirsten Dunst.

Danes is also an accomplished dancer and has received critical acclaim for her performances in EDITH AND JENNY and CHRISTINA OLSON: AMERICAN MODEL, both choreographed by Tamar Rogoff at P.S. 122. Related Videos James Rebhorn, Homeland Actor, Dies at 65 | E! News James Rebhorn, Homeland Actor, Dies at 65 By Email Robin Marchant/Getty Images James Rebhorn, who played the father of CIA officer Carrie Mathison ( Claire Danes ) on Homeland, has died after a long battle with melanoma, his agent Dianne Busch confirmed to E! News. He was 65 and passed away at his home on Friday, March 21. "He had been diagnosed in 1992 but fought it and continued to work as an actor," Busch added in a statement. "He had been at home receiving hospice care for the last two weeks. His family was with him. He will be greatly missed." The veteran character actor's career spanned more than five decades and he appeared in more than one hundred television shows, films and stage productions.

Showtime His notable television credits include portraying Special Agent Reese Hughes on USA's White Collar and the district attorney who sent Jerry, Elaine, Kramer and George to jail on the series finale of Seinfeld in 1998. PHOTOS: Celebrity deaths in 2013 Ali Goldstein/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images TV viewers also saw Rebhorn in 30 Rock, Law & Order, The Good Wife, Enlightened, Boston Legal, Third Watch and The Book of Daniel. The Philadelphia native's extensive film résumé includes Independence Day, My Cousin Vinny, Scent of a Woman, The Game, Meet the Parents and The Talented Mr. Ripley. Per IMDB , he is survived by his wife Rebecca and their two daughters. —Reporting by Marcus Mulick Brazil E! Is Everywhere This content is available customized for our international audience. Would you like to view this in our US edition? E! Is Everywhere This content is available customized for our international audience. Would you like to view this in our Canadian edition? E! Is Everywhere This content is available customized for our international audience. Would you like to view this in our UK edition? E!

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You won't be able to turn away from this gripping, emotional thriller in which nothing short of the fate of our nation is at stake. Want Showtime? Choose Your Way Wednesday, Jan 18 at 9 PM ET/PT REPLAY: Season 6, Episode 1 Homeland: New York, New York Watch a mashup of clips from Homeland that form the lyrics to "New York, New York." previous Season 6 Carrie Mathison is back in the US on the streets of New York, fighting for the protection of civil liberties and against the abuse of power within our government. She remains in opposition with Saul, who is still with the CIA. Season 6 Season 5 Out of the CIA and living in Berlin, Carrie is trying to start a new life but realizes now she�s the one with a target on her back. One thing quickly becomes clear � she�s never been at greater risk or with more to lose. Season 5 Season 4 Carrie's CIA career takes off when she becomes an overseas station chief, but but every drone strike and tactical raid comes at a cost and she quickly learns the true price of power. Saul fights to stay in the intelligence game.

Season 4 Season 3 Carrie goes to extraordinary lengths to solve the latest crisis at the CIA; Brody struggles to survive; Saul must play many opposing sides to keep his job at the CIA. Season 3 Season 2 Carrie continues her hunt for Abu Nazir while maintaining a complicated personal/professional relationship with Brody; Brody is forced to work more closely with the CIA; Saul discovers a clandestine plot. Season 2 Season 1 Carrie investigates and ultimately becomes obsessed with returned POW marine Nicholas Brody, who may or may not be an al-Qaeda-trained terrorist; Brody struggles to resume his life with his wife and children whom he barely knows. SPOILER ALERT? Claire Danes appears to be in mourning as she shoots harrowing Homeland scenes in South Africa | Daily Mail Online comments We last saw a grief-stricken Carrie Mathison using a black marker to write about her dead lover on the wall at CIA headquarters. Carrie was pregnant and Nicholas Brody – American hero turned turncoat prisoner of war - was dead, hanging from an enemy’s rope. Six months later, in the thrilling season premiere of Homeland’s fourth season, the anti-hero Carrie is not grieving.

And she has no interest in being a mother to the tragic couple's red-headed little girl. Reluctant mother: CIA agent Carrie Mathison is distressed by motherhood in the season premiere of Homeland Anti-hero: Actress Claire Dane plays the conflicted CIA agent with a craving to be a spy, but no desire for motherhood. The Drone Queen finds Carrie – played strikingly and consistently by Claire Danes - stationed in Kabul. As the station chief, Carrie is in charge of drone strikes – and has no problem pulling the trigger. Newcomer Sandy Bachman, played by Corey Stoll, is Carrie’s new source in the region and on Taliban leader Haissam Haqqani, reportedly holed up in a farmhouse deep in Pakistan's tribal region. With no confirmation of Haqqani’s sighting, Carrie nevertheless doesn't hesitate to send in a bomb – opening up the season to vengeance and blood from the Taliban. Middle east setting: Carrie is stationed in Kabul, and has no problem ordering drone strikes Informant: In demand actor Corey Stoll plays Carrie's fated informant Oops: Carrie's drone strike triggered a series of unfortunate events Back at CIA headquarters, she’s rewarded for her steely nerves with a birthday cake that says, ‘Drone Queen’.

Meanwhile, viewers are introduced to Frannie, the child she was carrying last season. A dead-ringer for red-headed Brody, Carrie’s discomfort in caring for the child is palpable and frightening. While she is a careful mother, using a car seat as required and changing nappies when messy, Carrie handles the baby as if she’s an enemy grenade. 'Get back here!' CIA director Lockhart orders Carrie back to the states after her drone strike stirred up deeper unrest Better Call Saul! Lockhart could is in danger of losing command In one tense scene, with strains of ominous jazz music playing throughout, Carrie seems to be ready to drown the baby as she’s bathing her. Being freaked out by motherhood is to be expected from Carrie’s bi-polar, highly intelligent character. So much so that fans of the show did not judge her when she decided she had to leave Frannie with her sister. 'Don't bring me back!' Carrie is in danger of losing her job Home is not where the heart is! Carrie can't stand taking care of her child and appears to want to drown her The baby is safe and sound!

Little Frannie is left with Carrie's nurturing sister Instead of a two-hour premiere, Homeland producers decided to air a session of back-to-back episodes instead. Later on in the series, Carrie supplies Saul with information about Lockhart and suggests a plan to blackmail him into assigning her to the job she wants – station chief in Islamabad. The intrigue is on! Later on, Carrie supplies Saul with information about Lockhart and suggests a plan to blackmail him into assigning her to the job she wants – station chief in Islamabad. The intrigue is on! Later on, Carrie supplies Saul with information about Lockhart and suggests a plan to blackmail him into assigning her to the job she wants – station chief in Islamabad. Later on, Carrie is seeesupplies Saul with information about Lockhart and suggests a plan to blackmail him into assigning her to the job she wants – station chief in Islamabad. and suggests a plan to blackmail him into assigning her to the job she wants – station chief in Islamabad. The ambitious character and suggests a plan to blackmail him into assigning her to the job she wants – station chief in Islamabad. The popular character's tragic death is blowback for the drone attack - and the CIA is scrambling to bury the story.

In trouble: CIA agent Quinn becomes a good friend to Carrie in Season 4 Unusual affair: Quinn hooks up with a hotel manager - and beats up some guys who make fun of her weight Director Lockhart wants to make an example of Carrie by permanently recalling her to the States, which would mean she would have to take responsibility for her daughter. Quinn is dealing with the trauma of Bachman's death by shirking his meetings at CIA headquarters, having sex with a hefty hotel worker and beating up strangers for making fun of her. Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin) is also in DC for Bachman’s funeral and it’s insinuated he could have a comeback at the agency since Lockhart is becoming unglued. Later on, Carrie is seen supplying Saul with personal information about Lockhart. and suggests a plan to blackmail him into assigning her to the job she wants – station chief in Islamabad.

Together again: Carrie and Saul plan their overthrow of Lockhart To be continued: The relationship between Carrie and Saul deepens in Season 4 Homeland actor James Rebhorn dies at 65 - BBC News BBC News Homeland actor James Rebhorn dies at 65 24 March 2014 Image copyright AP Image caption Rebhorn's extensive filmography included The Talented Mr Ripley and Independence Day US actor James Rebhorn, known for roles in TV series Homeland and the film Scent of a Woman, has died. Rebhorn, 65, who had skin cancer, died at his home in South Orange, New Jersey, his agent Dianne Busch said. His career spanned five decades and saw him appear in TV shows including The Good Wife and 30 Rock and films such as Meet the Parents, My Cousin Vinny, Carlito's Way and Basic Instinct. Diagnosed with melanoma in 1992, he continued working until last month. His agent told The Hollywood Reporter : "He fought it all this time.

"He died [on] Friday afternoon at his home in New Jersey, where he had been receiving hospice care for a week and a half." Rebhorn had more than 100 screen credits, one of the most recent being for Homeland, in which he played Frank Mathison, the father of Claire Danes' CIA officer Carrie Mathison. 'Amazing actor' His films included The Talented Mr Ripley, in which he played a shipping magnate, plus Meet the Parents and The Game. Image copyright Getty Images RIP James Rebhorn, a lovely man and a terrific actor Jason Alexander, Seinfeld actor Rebhorn often played authority figures, including the headmaster in 1992's Scent of a Woman and the US secretary of defence in the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day. The Philadelphia-born actor also worked on stage, with theatre roles including Broadway productions of 12 Angry Men and Our Town. Tributes have been paid to the prolific character actor. Actor Jason Alexander, who played George Costanza in the long-running US sitcom Seinfeld, tweeted : "RIP James Rebhorn, a lovely man and a terrific actor." Rebhorn played a district attorney in the show's last ever episode.

Actor Tom Arnold wrote on Twitter : "RIP. This actor was amazing. You didn't know him but trust me, you knew him." Director Roland Emmerich, who worked with him on Independence Day, tweeted : "It's a sad day. I just learned James Rebhorn passed. Such a great talent and always a joy to work with. RIP." Donnie Darko writer Richard Kelly tweeted : "I loved working with the great James Rebhorn on The Box. He was one of our most reliable and underrated character actors. RIP." Actress Frances Fisher wrote : "Shocked and saddened to hear of James Rebhorn's passing. Jim was a consummate actor with whom I had the pleasure to work when we were young." Comedian Mike Birbiglia who worked with Rebhorn on 2012's Sleep Walk with Me tweeted : "So sad to hear about the passing of James Rebhorn. He played my dad in Sleepwalk With Me. I feel so lucky to have known such a great person." Rebhorn is survived by his wife Rebecca Linn and two daughters.

David Harewood, 'Homeland' Actor, Says Nicholas Brody Deserves To Die | The Huffington Post David Harewood, 'Homeland' Actor, Says Nicholas Brody Deserves To Die 01/03/2013 02:57 pm ET | Updated Jan 23, 2014 310 Mike Hogan Digital Director, Vanity Fair David Harewood has one thing in common with David Estes, the scheming CIA counterterrorism director he played on Showtime's "Homeland": he thinks Nicholas Brody, the U.S. Marine turned would-be terrorist at the heart of the show's first two seasons, deserved to die. "I think [Estes] was fully justified in trying to get rid of Brody, even though all the ladies don't think that's the case," Harewood told The Huffington Post in a phone interview from London late last week. "I think he had to go. I mean, this was a guy who put on a suicide vest. This was a guy who was prepared to blow up half the American administration -- including me!" Instead -- spoiler alert!

-- it was Harewood's character who died in the show's season 2 finale , which aired on Dec. 16. As the season ended, Brody was running for his life, but still very much alive. Harewood, a veteran of English theater and television, knows that fans of the series loved to hate Estes. But, perhaps inevitably, he wound up liking the guy. "I could really see things from his point of view. He was obviously a patriot, and, although he was self-serving, I think his heart was in the right place." Nevertheless, Harewood remained clear-eyed about Estes' faults. "This is a guy who's a political animal. He wants to climb the greased pole. He's almost sold his soul, in a sense, to get what he wants," he said. Harewood said it took awhile for him to fully grasp his character's true nature. "I struggled in the first season to figure out who he was," he admitted. Like all the actors on "Homeland," Harewood received his scripts one episode at a time, often just a few days before filming began, so there were times when Estes' behavior surprised even him.

"I would write myself a backstory, and then you'd get a script that would completely contradict that backstory," Harewood said. "Just as I'd begin to like him, he'd do something which was a real pain and I'd have to go, 'Fuck, OK.'" The most dramatic example came when Harewood and Claire Danes, who plays the unstable CIA officer Carrie Mathison, were handed a scene referencing a past affair between their characters -- one that had the effect of wrecking Estes' marriage. "I didn't even know what my wife's name was, and all of a sudden you're playing the scene with these names and all this stuff that's supposed to have happened between Claire's and my characters," Harewood recalled. "We hadn't really had any time to digest it and think about it. So it was a bit awkward. And I remember being in a bit of a funk afterward, just thinking, 'I don't know where I am with this guy.'" Still, the affair became central to Harewood's portrayal of Estes. "Even though it wasn't written or wasn't explored, I just played that he still had this thing for [Carrie]," he said.

"I always had this thing that she was the one who broke up my marriage. She's the one that allowed emotion to get in the way of sense -- probably the only time Estes would have done that." The better Harewood understood his character, the more he wished viewers could see things from Estes' point of view. "It was always, obviously, from Carrie and Saul's perspective," Harewood said, referring to Saul Berenson, the lovable CIA division chief played by Mandy Patinkin. "But I could always fully justify why [Estes] was always somewhat grumpy and always somewhat mistrustful of Saul. I think what Dar Adal [the off-the-books spymaster played by F. Murray Abraham] says to Saul is perfectly correct, which is sometimes he's afraid to get his hands dirty. And I suppose I did think that that was going to be more of what Estes represented -- the darker side of the CIA." As for Carrie, who repeatedly defied direct orders only to be proven right time and time again, Harewood thinks Estes was right to be wary of her.

"There was always this idea that she's a brilliant maverick, but somebody that needs to be controlled and watched and carefully managed," Harewood said. "I perhaps would have liked more scenes where I got to state that." The "Homeland" writers' room is famously stacked with talent. Co-executive producers Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon are decorated veterans who've worked together on "The X-Files" and "24," among other shows, and their fellow writers -- Chip Johannessen, Alex Cary, Henry Bromell and Meredith Stiehm -- all have experience running their own shows. "Obviously they were great," Harewood said, but he also acknowledged that he and the other actors on the show were as puzzled as some fans by the controversial developments of Season 2. "After episode 5, I think all of us realized we didn't know where it was quite going," Harewood said. "And there was just a slight slacking off of the intensity that there was in [episodes] 1 to 5.

I think we all kind of thought, Where are we heading with this?" The turning point for Harewood came when Carrie interrogated Brody and got him to admit that he had come this close to suicide-bombing the vice-president and a room full of senior officials. "Once the Q&A [between Carrie and Brody] happened and everything was on the table, then it was like, OK, we've got seven episodes left and what are we going to do? He'd admitted everything," Harewood said. "And I think that's perhaps when it became more about a personal thing between Carrie and Brody." One development Harewood didn't learn about from the script: his own character's death. "Alex [Ganza] rang me up a couple of days after the Emmys and told me I wasn't going to make it," Harewood said. "And I'll be honest -- it gutted me. I was really disappointed.

But I think about 20 minutes after I spoke to him, I sat down and wrote him an email just saying how grateful I was, because really these have been two of the best years of my life." Harewood, who lives in London with his wife and two daughters, has been eyeing the American market for years, and now that he has a foothold he's determined to make the most of it. "I don't expect all my work to be as spectacularly successful as 'Homeland,' but what a fantastic place to start," he said. "It's been like a two-year screen test. I mean, everybody in the business has been watching it. So it's at least put me in the shop window, you know?" Harewood will be in Los Angeles this month for pilot season, hoping to land a role in another American series. "You know, I was very, very lucky to get 'Homeland,' but I would like to hopefully get a part next time that allows me to be a little bit more lively," he said. "I had to shut everything off with Estes. He wasn't charming. He wasn't funny.

There was no twinkle." Meanwhile, "Homeland" will continue without Estes -- or Harewood. Asked to speculate on the identity of the infamous "mole" that may or may not exist inside the show's version of the CIA, Harewood said it could be anybody. "I know that in the first season, we didn't even think about it. And it's become a bit of an obsession with the audience: Who is the mole? And I think the writers are now going, 'Well, that's something we have in our back pocket.' They weren't even thinking of it, but it has become something that's very convenient for them." He added: "Everyone I know thinks Mandy's the mole. Which is interesting. Interesting." 'Homeland' James Rebhorn Dead: 'Homeland,' 'White Collar' Actor Was 65 | Hollywood Reporter Associated Press James Rebhorn The industry veteran, who passed away at home on Friday, played memorable supporting characters on film and TV. James Rebhorn, the busy character actor who played the father of Claire Danes' troubled CIA officer Carrie Mathison on the Showtime drama Homeland, has died.

He passed away on Friday, his agent Dianne Busch confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter . He was 65. "He died from melanoma, which had been diagnosed in 1992," Busch stated. "He fought it all this time. He died Friday afternoon at his home in New Jersey, where he had been receiving hospice care for a week and a half." PHOTOS: James Rebhorn's Career in Pictures Rebhorn also had a recent recurring role on the USA Network hit White Collar as Special Agent Reese Hughes, head of the FBI's Manhattan white-collar crime unit. During his prolific five-decade career, the Philadelphia native also was memorable as the district attorney that sent Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer to jail on the Seinfeld finale in 1998 and as the prosecution’s FBI expert automotive witness in the hilarious film My Cousin Vinny (1992). He also had stints as attorneys on the David E. Kelley shows The Practice and Boston Legal and recurring roles on Third Watch, The Book of Daniel, Law & Order and Big Lake. STORY: 6 Top Actors' Uncensored Tales in THR's Roundtable Rebhorn played the school's headmaster Mr.

Trask in Scent of a Woman (1992) and was President Signoff in The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000). His vast film résumé also includes Silkwood (1983), The House on Carroll Street (1988), Desperate Hours (1990), Regarding Henry (1991), Shadows and Fog (1991), Basic Instinct (1992), Lorenzo's Oil (1992), Guarding Tess (1994), Independence Day (1996), The Game (1997), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Snow Falling on Cedars (1999), Meet the Parents (2000), Far From Heaven (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), Real Steel (2011) and The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012).

STORY: Hollywood Mourns Notable Character Actor James Rebhorn Rebhorn was a mainstay of the Roundabout Theatre Company and most recently starred as a father stricken with Alzheimer's in Too Much, Too Much, Too Many, which opened in November at the Black Box Theatre in New York. He appeared onstage in the original production of I'm Not Rappaport in 1985 and in the revivals of Our Town, The Man Who Had All the Luck, Dinner at Eight, Twelve Angry Men and Prelude to a Kiss. He also was seen on the TV shows Kate & Allie, The Equalizer, Wiseguy, Enlightened and 30 Rock. "USA Network is deeply saddened about the passing of James Rebhorn, who so brilliantly played Reese Hughes on White Collar. Our sympathies go out to his family, friends and loved ones," the TV network said in a statement. Rebhorn is survived by his wife, Rebecca, and daughters Hanna and Emma. 'Homeland' actor James Rebhorn dies at 65 | Fox News 'Homeland' actor James Rebhorn dies at 65 Published March 23, 2014 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Email Print Nov.

4, 2009: In this file photo, actor James Rebhorn attends the premiere of "The Box", in New York. (AP/KRAPE) NEW YORK – James Rebhorn, the prolific character actor who starred in "Homeland," "Scent of a Woman" and "My Cousin Vinny," has died. He was 65. Rebhorn's agent, Dianne Busch, said Sunday that the actor died Friday at his home in South Orange, N.J. She declined to give details on the nature of his death. In five decades of television and film work, Rebhorn amassed more than 100 credits, ranging from a shipping magnate in "The Talented Mr. Ripley" to the prosecutor in the series finale of "Seinfeld," in which he famously sent the group to jail. The lanky but piercing Rebhorn, raised a Lutheran in Indiana, often played astringent authorities, like the headmaster in "Scent of a Woman" or the Secretary of Defense in "Independence Day." On "Homeland," he played the father of Claire Danes' CIA officer Carrie Mathison.

He also had a recurring role on the USA Network series "White Collar" playing the FBI head of a white-collar crime unit. Other credits of the Philadelphia-born Rebhorn, who received his masters in acting from Columbia University, include "The Game," "Real Steel," "Law & Order," "Carlito's Way" and "Meet the Parents." Rebhorn also frequently worked in theater, starring on Broadway in revivals of "Our Town," "12 Angry Men" and the original 1985 production of "I'm Not Rappaport." Advertisement Mandy Patinkin on Homeland: 'I have no problem with violence' - Telegraph TV and Radio Mandy Patinkin on Homeland: 'I have no problem with violence' Ahead of the new series of Homeland, Mandy Patinkin talks to Jane Mulkerrins about playing CIA spy Saul Berenson. Mandy Patinkin during a scene from the second season of Homeland Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson and Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison in Homeland.

Homeland: Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison and Damien Lewis as Nicholas 'Nick' Brody By Jane Mulkerrins 6:42AM BST 26 Sep 2012 Mandy Patinkin is counting his blessings. Soon to turn 60, with a career that spans four decades and straddles film, television and Broadway, the actor admits he had not expected to land a high-profile role at this stage in life. “I’m in a constant state of gratitude,” he says. “I don’t quite understand why I have been given this gift. And I don’t know what else I could wish for.” The gift is a part in the brilliant thriller Homeland , which returns to British screens for a second series next month. Homeland tells the tale of Sergeant Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), a US Marine missing in action for eight years, who is unexpectedly rescued. Although he is heralded as a war hero, one CIA officer – Carrie Mathison, played by Claire Danes – suspects him of having been turned against America by his al-Qaeda captors. Patinkin plays Saul Berenson, Carrie’s inscrutable former boss at the CIA, and her mentor.

“That relationship is the world to him – he would sacrifice everything for her,” Patinkin says of Saul’s paternalistic bond with Carrie. “His role is to protect her with his life, because he believes she has a savant-like gift, an uncanny intuitiveness towards human nature.” I meet Patinkin at his apartment on New York’s Upper East Side. “The great love of my life is music,” the celebrated tenor tells me in his mellifluous voice, which he regularly takes on tour around the world in his one-man show. Impressive sums of money change hands to hear Patinkin sing Broadway hits, many by the notoriously demanding composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, with whom he has long collaborated. In the flesh, Patinkin could hardly be more different from his alter-ego. Where Saul is buttoned-up and often silent, Patinkin is passionate and talkative – he needs little prompting to share his opinions, and delivers every sentence with dramatic variations in volume and speed, as if I’m sitting not on a sofa, but in the stalls.

Related Articles John McCarthy: Homeland scenes are grotesque 02 Oct 2012 His stage CV includes roles such as Georges Seurat in the first production of Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George in 1983, and Che opposite Patti LuPone’s Eva Perón in the original Broadway version of Evita in 1979, for which he won a Tony award. His best-known film role has been the Spanish swordsman Inigo Montoya in the 1987 classic The Princess Bride. “The idea, for so long – in my family and in the culture – was that to be successful, you had to be a movie star,” says Patinkin. Yet in spite of appearing in hits such as Dick Tracy, Yentl and True Colours, he confesses: “Movies were a struggle for me – they didn’t come easy. Life is short, and at a certain point, you have to let it go and move on. “People ask me, ‘Are you getting more movie offers now, because of Homeland?’,” he continues, with a broad smile. “I give them the answer, from the bottom of my heart: I am hoping to get more concert offers.

Because I just love being up there singing those songs.” The shelves of his studio are littered with photographs, and in pride of place is a snap of the actor, in black tie, sandwiched between Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, taken at a recent Broadway benefit concert for the President. Today, he’s in more casual attire, looking trim in a T-shirt. He says he walks everywhere, and admits that vanity makes him shave off Saul’s beard as soon as filming is finished for the season. “I look younger without it… at least, I like to think I do,” he says with a laugh. He is back in New York, briefly, thanks to a break in filming Homeland as the Democratic Party Convention takes over Charlotte, North Carolina, where the series is shot. The city stands in for Washington DC and Langley, Virginia, where the CIA has its headquarters. In researching his role, Patinkin was given rare access, in Langley, to a (supposedly) retired spook, the CIA’s former Middle East bureau chief. “Most of my questions had to do with emotional reactions to situations,” he says. “When did you get scared? Did you pray?

Did you think you were going to die?” When the spy mentioned his daughters, now in their twenties, Patinkin asked to meet them, too. “That’s when the dime dropped for me,” he says. For all the politics and post-9/11 paranoia, the theme of family, Patinkin believes, is what has really touched a nerve with viewers of the show. “This whole piece is about a family: the Brody family, Carrie and her family, the CIA family, the family of America as a country, and the world as a family,” he says. Saul’s own immediate family situation finished far from happily in season one; his wife, Mira, felt sidelined in favour of his work, and left him. “I think that is his Achilles’ heel, his blind spot,” says Patinkin. “He forgot to pay attention to what was in front of his nose.” Fortunately for Patinkin, who has been married to his wife Kathryn Grody, also an actress, for 34 years, he himself had the foresight to avoid such an outcome.

In 1994, he took on the role of Dr Jeffrey Geiger, a surgeon in the hospital drama Chicago Hope, for which he won an Emmy Award, before promptly leaving during the second season. “It was depriving me of precious time with my family, and I couldn’t keep up that schedule,” he says. “I wish I could have stayed longer, but I got to spend all that time with my kids.” His two sons, Gideon and Isaac, are now 30 and 26; Gideon is a singer-songwriter who sometimes performs with his father, while Isaac is a massage therapist. Patinkin also walked out of his role as Jason Gideon, an FBI profiler in Criminal Minds, after two seasons, this time over the show’s sensationalised violence. “Being part of that violence – it hurt my soul,” he says, rather dramatically. “You cannot prove that that individual in Aurora, Colorado [where 12 people were shot dead at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in July], was not in some way influenced by some images he had seen somewhere along the line. He didn’t learn it in a vacuum; he saw it,” he concludes, thumping his fist on the table between us.

Homeland has its share of violent torture scenes, too. “I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people,” Patinkin insists. “I’d play Adolf Hitler if the larger story is giving you some understanding into what makes the Adolf Hitlers of this world.” Patinkin was brought up in Chicago, in a conservative Jewish family (his full forename is Mandel). He attended religious school, and sang in synagogue choirs. And though these days he says he is “spiritual, but not religious”, his upbringing influences his portrayal of Saul. One of the most talked-about scenes in Homeland, in which Saul recites a prayer in Aramaic for an al-Qaeda member who has committed suicide, was improvised, he says. “It’s called the Mourner’s Kaddish and it’s a prayer for the dead. It wasn’t written in the script, but all of a sudden I thought, ‘What would Saul do?’ “I say it all the time myself, this prayer which I learnt as a kid.” This moment has led to speculation that Saul is the al-Qaeda mole who is believed to have infiltrated the CIA.

But Patinkin isn’t being drawn on that – in fact, he sounds as if he doesn’t know one way or the other. “There has been talk that Saul is a mole, or is a bad guy,” he says. “I ask the writers not to tell me what is happening in the future. I don’t know the future, so why should Saul?” As season two opens, we find Saul back in Beirut, having resumed his position as bureau chief. Yet Patinkin is forbidden to reveal anything more. “It has been a journey for me to figure things out, too,” he says (the cast is given the scripts only one by one). “But I am starting to see possibilities that I hadn’t considered before, and I am very curious to see how they play out,” he says, tight-lipped to the end. Saul would be impressed.

Question: Who plays CIA Officer Carrie Mathison in 'Homeland'?
Answer: CLAIRE DANES